 Till I the prince of love beheld, Who in the sunny beams did glide! He showed me lilies for my hair, And blushing roses for my brow; He led me through his gardens fair, Where all his golden pleasures grow.  The Poetical Works of William Blake - Page 8by William Blake - 1906Full view - About this book
 | Julian Hill - 1907 - 378 pages
...precocity confined to one art. At the age of twelve he had already composed these magical verses : — How sweet I roamed from field to field, And tasted...of Love beheld Who in the sunny beams did glide. He shewed me lilies for my hair, And blushing roses for my brow ; He led me through his gardens fair Where... | |
 | Arthur Symons - 1907 - 464 pages
...juvenile playfulness of Blake's muse, copied from page 10 of these Poems.1 SONG ' How sweet I roam'd from field to field, And tasted all the Summer's pride,...Love beheld, Who in the sunny beams did glide ! ' He show'd me lilies for my hair, And blushing roses for my brow ; He led me through his gardens fair,... | |
 | Arthur Symons - 1907 - 470 pages
...the Summer's pride, Till I the Prince of Love beheld, Who in the sunny beams did glide ! ' He show'd me lilies for my hair, And blushing roses for my brow ; He led me through his gardens fair, Where all his golden pleasures grow. 1 The whole copy of this little work, entitled... | |
 | William Blake - 1966 - 964 pages
...she had no tears to shed; She hugg'd it to her breast, and groan'd her last. SONG How sweet I roam'd from field to field, And tasted all the summer's pride,...of love beheld, Who in the sunny beams did glide! 5 He shew'd me lilies for my hair, And blushing roses for my brow ; He led me through his gardens fair,... | |
 | Harold Bloom - 1971 - 516 pages
...birds in golden cages kept," Blake writes a song mingling Innocence and Experience: How sweet I roam'd from field to field, And tasted all the summer's pride,...love beheld, Who in the sunny beams did glide! He shew'd me lilies for my hair. And blushing roses for my brow; He led me through his gardens fair, Where... | |
 | David Daiches - 1969 - 356 pages
...signs of imitativeness. It is the lyric touch that impresses most in this volume: How sweet I roam'd from field to field, And tasted all the summer's pride,...of love beheld, Who in the sunny beams did glide! This is the first stanza of a poem entitled simply "Song," as are the following lines: My silks and... | |
 | L. C. Knights - 1981 - 246 pages
...prince of love' should alert us), it clearly ends as something very different indeed. How sweet I roam'd from field to field, And tasted all the summer's pride,...prince of love beheld, Who in the sunny beams did glide I He shew'd me lilies for my hair, And blushing roses for my brow; He led me through his gardens fair,... | |
 | Peggy Muñoz Simonds - 1992 - 412 pages
...remarkable of such poems, however, is a song written much later by William Blake: How sweet I roam'd from field to field, And tasted all the summer's pride,...of Love beheld Who in the sunny beams did glide! He show'd me lilies for my hair. And blushing roses for my brow; He led me through his gardens fair Where... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...(1. 1-3) InPK; NAs; OxBSP; RB; TrGrPo How sweet I roam 'd from field to field 23 How sweet I roam'd GTBS; GTBS-P; HAP; InPS; LiTB; NAEL-1; NOBE; NoP;...XXI. No longer mourn for me when I am dead 214 No lo (1. 1—4) 24 With sweet May dews my wings were wet, And Phoebus fir'd my vocal rage; He caught me... | |
 | William Blake - 1995 - 136 pages
...our flocks are cover'd with Thy sacred dew: protect them with thine influence. 10 How sweet I roam'd from field to field, And tasted all the summer's pride,...love beheld, Who in the sunny beams did glide! He shew'd me lilies for my hair, And blushing roses for my brow; He led me through his gardens fair, Where... | |
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